#Xmen

In his essay “Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: the Ethics of Mind-Reading and Mind-Writing,” philosophy professor Andrew Terjesen raises a number of arguments about the paradigm-altering power the X-telepaths possess.
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Operating counter-intuitively, Claremont’s cultivation of Cyclops’ character works around dismantling the accomplishments that had previously defined him through external validation in the silver age. #xmen 1/7 The most obvious validati
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With the aid of an image inducer, Nightcrawler is able to pass as non-mutant (a skill that all of the other X-Men during Nightcrawler’s tenure more or less possess unaided).
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Comics scholars on X-Men have, historically, identified the 1982 Wolverine mini-series as the first X-Men spinoff, and in this decision lies a judgement call to treat “Dazzler” as an external
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Claremont has cited “Terry and the Pirates” as an inspiration for his approach to both comics in general and X-Men specifically. Created by artist Milton Caniff in 1934, the comic
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Jim Lee’s artwork on UXM represented a watershed moment in comics history, helping to spur an aesthetic transition from individualized character bodies to mythic but homogenized bodies, a tradition in
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UXM #231 offers a bizarre story in which Magik must team with Colossus in order to save the New Mutants from Baba Yaga. Strange in premise, the issue nonetheless offers
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Kurt Wagner’s arc is not a story about accepting oneself - he gets there almost immediately - but a much more complicated story about navigating your lack of acceptance in
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Toward the end of the Claremont run, the X-Men briefly reinstated (nearly) identical costumes, providing a rare opportunity to reflect on how that choice between individualized costumes and shared costumes
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Claremont’s work has received much attention for introducing androgynous female characters to comics in the early 1980s. Less-discussed, however, is the fact that a lot of those gender-queer characters were
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Though openly opposed to sexual violence against women at a literal level, Claremont’s X-Men does frequently participate in a long-standing comics trope of commercializing implied sexual violence against women. 1/8
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The famous consummation scene between Jean and Scott in UXM 132 features an important assertion of Jean’s sexual agency and power, setting up some of the prominent symbolism that will
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Though innately dysfunctional, the Mystique/Rogue relationship combines profound affection, bad choices, and poor communication. Despite the extremes of the fictional world they occupy, the pair reflect a lot of how
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Remember when Nightcrawler had a beard in X-Men Red? This thread here is the story of how it came about.#beardednightcrawler So in the beginning, I was asked to draw X-Men
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While superhero comics are famous for advocating the existence of moral absolutes in the pursuit of justice, Storm takes that idea of the “one rule” and stabs it in the
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The comic book speculation market that quickly evolved around comics in the 1960s and 1970s has become an integral component of comics culture, but due to its specific nature and
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